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Telling Your Children About the Holocaust

Sydni.Meyer — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 17:40:33 +0000

By Dr. Eva Fogelman, Ph.D. If you are a Holocaust survivor with a grandchild and you seek to fulfill the awesome responsibility of perpetuating the memory of The Six Million, you face a great conflict and challenge. You cannot only discuss the Holocaust in the abstract but, rather, you need to share the experiences you…

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German Child Survivors in Action

Sydni.Meyer — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 17:39:56 +0000

By Philipp Sonntag On 13 April 2001, the Association of Child Survivors in Germany (Child Survivors Deutschland, CSD) was established, nearly fifty-five years after the end of the Holocaust. The group, initially modest in its aims, soon became an invaluable new organization, which served as a kind of “surrogate family,” for many survivors. It offered…

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A Measure of Faith: Child Holocaust Survivors and their Spiritual Dilemma

Kavod — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 19:16:10 +0000

By Robert Krell M.D. July 27, 2016 I am a child Holocaust survivor and must, therefore, begin with my own origins, including my struggle to develop what can only be described as a rudimentary connection to Judaism. Having been born in 1940 in German-occupied Holland, and already in hiding by mid-1942, I entered the war…

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Trauma in a Residential Setting

Kavod — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:05:11 +0000

Goodnight, Irene… Welcome Home! Transforming Relational Trauma in a Residential Setting By George Halasz, Magalí Kaplan, Rod Myer “And so I learnt that the poet is a pulse in the rhythmic flow of generations.” – Octavio Paz, In Search of the Present (1990 Nobel Lecture, p. 22, San Diego Harvest) Introduction It is often said…

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Wartime Experiences and Late Life Coping

Kavod — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:52:51 +0000

In Their Own Words: Survivor Wartime and Late Life Coping Styles By Nancy Isserman, Bea Hollander-Goldfein and S. Nechama Horwitz The coping literature is quite extensive with hundreds of published articles examining coping strategies. More specifically, the field of Holocaust studies has also examined coping. Most studies have looked at coping using quantitative instruments. Some combine…

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Aging Child Survivors

Kavod — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:46:31 +0000

Aging of Child Holocaust Survivors By Yoram Barak, MD, MHA Introduction Numerous studies focus on the influence of Holocaust experiences on child survivors more than 60 years after the Holocaust. Our own treatment and research group investigated issues as diverse as development of dementia, suicide and psychiatric services used by survivors (Ohanna, Golander, & Barak, 2011;…

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